Hello. New to abovetopsecret. Just thought I would post an interesting article on the Aryers/Obama connection:

It's hard to put out a fire by pouring gasoline on it, so many are amazed the Obama campaign is trying this technique. The fire Sen. Obama wants to
douse was small until his aides arrived with gas cans. For months, conservatives have been trying to direct attention to the relationship between Mr.
Obama and William Ayers. Bill Ayers was a leader of the Weather Underground, which planted bombs in the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon during the
Vietnam war. He went on the lam after a nail bomb his group was building to kill soldiers and their wives at a dance at Fort Dix went off prematurely,
killing three of the conspirators. Mr. Ayers was never prosecuted because of FBI misconduct. He became a professor of education at the University of
Illinois-Chicago. "I don't regret setting bombs," Mr. Ayers told the New York Times in an interview published on 9/11. "I feel we didn't do
enough." When asked about Bill Ayers during the Democratic debate in Philadelphia, Sen. Obama responded: "This is a guy who lives in my
neighborhood, who's a professor of English (sic) in Chicago, who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He's not
somebody I exchange ideas from on a regular basis."

I'm sure the GOP knows about this; and if they don't I'm sure people will bring this to their attention. I'm guessing after the GOP convention
McCain and his advisers will be pushing this story like crazy. The mainstream media will not want to focus on this story, but in due time will have no
choice.

Who is Khalid al-Mansour, and why was he backing Obama in the 1980s? Who is Khalid al-Mansour? And more importantly, why was he promoting Barack
Obama in the 1980’s and raising money for him, when Obama was in his twenties? I caught this story, first, over at Atlas Shrugs, where this odd
thing jumped out at me: Townhall links to a video in which civil rights activist Percy Sutton claimed he was asked by a certain “Dr. Khalid al
Mansour”, adviser to ‘one of the richest men in the world’ to write a letter of reccomendation on behalf of Barack Obama to help him gain
acceptance to Harvard many years ago. Mansour was raising money for Obama at the time, according to Sutton, which is strange in itself. And inside
the Townhall link, I found this: In the above video Sutton says: “I was introduced to him by a friend who was raising money for him and the friends
name was Dr. Khalid al Mansour from Texas. He is the principle adviser to one of the world’s richest men. He told me about Obama. He wrote to me
about him and his introduction was ‘there is a young man that has applied to Harvard and I know that you have a few friends left there because you
used to go up there to speak, would you please write a letter in support of him?’…I wrote a letter in support of him to my friends at Harvard
saying to them I thought there was a genius that was going to be available and I sure hoped they would treat him kindly.” The story gets even
stranger when you try to figure out who this guy al-Mansour is. In one of several updates, Atlas offers this: “Al Mansour represents OPEC? No
wonder Obama doesn’t want the US drilling anywhere.” Check it out! He’s the preacher. He’s the preacher? You mean, this guy?? And is that
guy this person: Dr. Khalid Abdullah Tario Al-Mansour is an internationally acknowledged advisor to Heads of State and business leaders in Africa,
Asia, the Middle East and North America. He has been actively involved in structuring investments and joint ventures worldwide for over 35 years. Dr.
Al-Mansour was also responsible for the Africa investment activities of Kingdom Holdings, Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal’s investment company.
During his distinguished career, Dr. Al-Mansour has been a guest lecturer at Harvard University, Bombay University, Columbia University, UCLA,
University of Kenya, London School of Economics and the University of Ghana. In addition to Africa Venture Partners, Dr. Al-Mansour sits on the
Boards of: Saudi African Bank; Kingdom Holdings, Africa; Multimedia Super Corridor (Malaysia); Space Tech Inc.; AmNet Corp. International; New Avenues
Fund Ltd; United Bank for Africa; United Networks; and Landmark Entertainment. Dr. Al-Mansour has authored 24 books and is listed in Who’s Who in
the World; International Who’s Who in the Arab World; Two Thousand Men of Achievement; Royal Blue Book of London; World’s Who’s Who of
Intellectuals and American Hall of Fame. Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Howard University (Phi Beta Kappa) and Doctor of
Jurisprudence from the University of California at Berkeley.

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